Show HOW howa to S SEW RUTH ST SPEARS by WYETH aup P I BY BACK DRAWING HEM A COIN 3 A A LETTER comes telling the story of mats a clever girl designed for her dressing table the problem was to make them to hi fit spaces of unusual size her room color scheme was blue and white and a design of white embroidered broi brol dered snow enow crystals on cool blue linen was what she wonted wanted hero here Is tho the way she achieved a charming result the linen was cut the desired size and narrow hems creased with a warm iron the hems were then backstitched in white from the right side with three strands of six strand mercerized zed embroidery cotton she wanted the arrangement ran gement of the snow crystals to be helter halter just as they would fall so she took a handful of coins and tossed them onto the linen there was a 50 cent piece a quarter some dimes nickels and pennies after several tosses she drew around each coin where it fell still using three strands of the w white hite cotton she took four stitches across the marked circle and then brought the needle out in the conter center as shown here in step 2 ready to take a tiny stitch to bind the long stitches together the crystals were embroidered over the long stitches the larger ones be ing more elaborate than the smaller as illustrated here the stitch used la Is shown jn in step 3 ninety other embroidery stitches are pictured in my sewing book no 2 also dozens of things you can make in your spare time to use or to sell order your copy today and be among the thousands of women who are finding this book useful enclose 25 cents and ask for book 2 address mrs spears S desplaines st chicago III |